For nearly 100 years, America’s farmers and ranchers have supported nutrition research to advance the understanding of beef’s role in a balanced and healthful diet. Farmers and ranchers are committed to providing a wholesome, nutritious food to Americans and building the evidence supporting beef’s role in health and wellbeing. Checkoff-funded human nutrition research is the foundation for all industry nutrition education and communication initiatives.
Statement of Principles Regarding Nutrition and Health
The beef industry’s principles guiding actions and communications about beef in regard to nutrition and health.
Understanding the Evidence on Red Meat and Cancer Risk
The beef community is committed to providing a wholesome, nutritious food and to communicating accurate information about beef’s nutritional qualities and beef’s role in a healthful diet. As part of its ongoing commitment to understanding beef’s role in a balanced and healthful diet, America’s farmers and ranchers have supported extensive reviews of the existing evidence on red meat, including beef, and cancer risk.
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Lean Matters: Chronicling Beef’s Change from Gate to Plate: A Distinctive Public-Private Collaboration
Farmers, ranchers, packers, processors, retailers, researchers, nutrition professionals, and even consumers have worked together to help shape the evolution of today’s leaner beef. This checkoff-funded, 16-page booklet describes the changes along the beef supply chain that have led to the growing number of lean cuts.
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Disentangling the Myths and Realities about Lean Beef
The association between dietary patterns and health has emerged as an important central concept in the development of dietary recommendations. The Western dietary pattern is most commonly defined as a diet characterized by high intakes of refined grains, sugar, fat, red meat and other animal products, and is frequently associated with negative health outcomes including heart disease, diabetes and cancer. However it should not be assumed that all dietary components of the Western dietary pattern are equally culpable. This article published in Nutrition Today, reviews the myths and realities regarding the role of lean beef in various healthful dietary patterns.
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Beef Nutrition
Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. The latest beef nutrition information and resources.
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
Ground Beef Nutrient Calculator
Fresh Meat and Poultry Product Labeler
Use this tool to access the correct nutrient data, based on USDA’s Nutrient Database, needed to create labels, posters and point-of-sale materials for all fresh beef, veal, pork, lamb and chicken sold at retail.
